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International

Suicide bombers kill 3 police officers, wound 10 in Indonesia

May 25th, 20170 JAKARTA ― Two suspected suicide bombers killed three Indonesian police officers and injured 10 people on Wednesday night in twin blasts near a bus station in the eastern part of the capital, police said. The blasts went off five minutes apart at Jakarta's Kampung Melayu terminal, police said. National Police spokesman Setyo...

World

Car bomb explodes, kills four in Syria’s Homs

May 24th, 20170 SYRIA- A car bomb exploded in Homs on Tuesday morning, Syrian state television said, two days after the city went back under full government control for the first time since 2011. Authorities destroyed another vehicle rigged with explosives near a Shi'ite Muslim shrine south of Damascus, the broadcaster and other state media...

World

British police name suicide bomber, May condemns ‘sickening’ attack

May 23rd, 20170 MANCHESTER- British police on Tuesday identified the suicide bomber who killed 22 people, including children, in an attack on a crowded concert hall in Manchester, and said they were trying to establish whether he had acted alone or with help from others. The man suspected of carrying out Britain's deadliest bombing in nearly 12 years...

International

U.S. nears $100 billion arms deal for Saudi Arabia

May 19th, 20170 WASHINGTON — The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totaling more than $100 billion, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of President Trump's planned visit to Riyadh. The official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the arms package could end up...

International

Trump visit seen as long shot to revive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking

May 19th, 20170 JERUSALEM — Just four months after taking office, Donald Trump will make the earliest foray into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking by any U.S. president next week. But with mounting obstacles at home and abroad, he faces long odds of succeeding where more experienced predecessors have failed. Even as last-minute changes are being made...

International

Trump revealed classified intelligence to Russians about ISIS

May 15th, 20170 WASHINGTON ― President Trump disclosed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister about a planned ISIS operation during their meeting last week, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the situation said on Monday. The intelligence, both officials said, was supplied by a U.S. ally in the fight against the militant...

International

U.S. to arm Syrian Kurds fighting ISIS

May 10th, 20170 VILNIUS ― Despite fierce opposition from NATO ally Turkey, President Trump has approved supplying arms to Kurdish YPG fighters to support an operation to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from ISIS, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Ankara views the Kurdish YPG militia, fighting within a larger U.S.-backed coalition, as the Syrian...

International

ISIS is developing own social media platform

May 5th, 20170 LONDON — ISIS militants are developing their own social media platform to avoid security crackdowns on their communications and propaganda, the head of the European Union's police agency said on Wednesday. Europol Director Rob Wainwright said the new online platform had been uncovered during a 48-hour operation against Internet...

U.S.A

Minneapolis Muslims protest ‘sharia’ fanatic

April 18th, 20170 A Georgian man has been reported imposing what he calls "the civil part of the sharia law" in the Minneapolis neighborhood of Cedar-Riverside by dictating to others how they should dress, what or what not to eat or drink, not to use drugs, or even interact with the opposite sex. The man, who has been attempting to recruit others...

World

Death toll from Aleppo bus convoy bomb attack exceeds 125, half of the victims are children

April 16th, 20170 DAMASCUS, Syria - The death toll from a bomb attack on a crowded bus convoy outside Aleppo has reached at least 126 in the deadliest such incident in Syria in almost a year, human rights groups reported on Sunday. Human rights groups and United Nations agencies cited reports that more than 60 children were among the...

World

ISIS attacks IraqI forces in Mosul with chemical weapons

April 16th, 20171 BAGHDAD, Iraq -Â ISIS used chemical weapons against Iraqi forces taking part in the operation to recapture Mosul, injuring some security personnel, the Iraqi military said on Sunday. ISIS has periodically carried out attacks using chemical weapons, but both the toll and the impact on military operations has been minimal and the...

International

U.S. drops largest non-nuclear bomb on ISIS in Afghanistan

April 13th, 20171 The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday against a series of caves used by ISIS militants, the military said. It was the first time the United States has used this size of bomb in a conflict. It was dropped from a MC-130 aircraft in the...

World

ISIS claims responsibilty for the two attacks on Coptic churches in Egypt

April 9th, 20170 CAIRO, Egypt - ISIS has claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on Coptic Christian churches in Egypt which have killed at least 36 people. “A group that belongs to Islamic State carried out the two attacks on the churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria,” the group’s news agency Amaq said. In the first, a bomb exploded...

In Our Opinion

Who benefits from the horrific chemical attacks in Syria?

April 8th, 20170 The deadliest chemical attack in Syria in years killed dozens of people in the rebel-held northern Idlib province on Tuesday morning, including children, and sickened scores more. The alleged "chemical airstrikes" are said to have taken place in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, about 50km south of the city of Idlib. Predictably, the...

World

Syrian government denies responsibility in Idlib’s chemical attack, blames rebels

April 4th, 20170 BEIRUT, Lebanon - The deadliest chemical weapons attack in years in Syria killed dozens of people in northern Idlib province on Tuesday morning, including children, and sickened scores more, according to medics, rescuers and witnesses in the rebel-held province. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack...

U.S.A

Trump welcomes Egyptian President Sisi to the White House: “He has done a fantastic job”

April 3rd, 20170 WASHINGTON, DC - President Donald Trump met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the White House. Trump said the Egyptian President had done a "fantastic job" and declared his support for Egypt and the Egyptian people. He also said he was “very much behind” Sisi and been very close to him since the first time they...

COMMUNITY

Abu Rayyan says he embarrassed Islam, sentencing postponed

April 2nd, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Monday, Khalil Abu Rayyan, a 22-year-old accused of supporting ISIS, told U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh that he embarrassed Islam during a hearing that ended with a postponed sentencing. "I never intended to hurt anyone," the Dearborn Heights man said. "My behavior caused embarrassment to myself, my...

International

UN: ‘Worst is yet to come’ with 400,000 trapped in west Mosul

March 24th, 20170 MOSUL — About 400,000 Iraqi civilians are trapped in the ISIS-held Old City of western Mosul, short of food and basic needs, as the battle between the militants and government forces rages around them, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday. Many fear fleeing because of ISIS snipers and landmines. But 157,000 have...

COMMUNITY

Sentencing rescheduled for Dearborn Heights man accused of supporting ISIS

March 14th, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS- On Monday, the sentencing for Khalil Abu Rayyan, a Dearborn Heights man accused of supporting ISIS, was postponed after Detroit’s federal courthouse was ordered closed due to harsh weather. At 4 p.m., an hour into sentencing, U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh declared that the U.S. District Court was ordered...

World

74 killed in Damascus bombing targeting Shi’ites

March 12th, 20170 DAMASCUS- According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the death toll of a double bomb attack targeting Shi'ite pilgrims in Damascus has climbed to 74. Yesterday, the Iraqi foreign ministry said that the bombs killed at least 40 Iraqis and wounded 120 who were visiting the Sayeda Zeinab shrine. There was no immediate claim...

International

Iraq aims to drive ISIS from west Mosul within a month, Baghdadi in hiding

March 10th, 20170 MOSUL — Iraqi forces aim to dislodge ISIS militants from west Mosul within a month, despite grueling urban combat in densely populated terrain, the head of the elite Counter Terrorism Service told Reuters on Thursday. As Iraqi forces advance deeper into west Mosul, they are facing increasingly stiff resistance from ISIS militants...

Crime

Detroit terror suspect reaches plea deal with feds

March 8th, 20170 DETROIT— Sebastian Gregerson, a Detroit gun fanatic and married father of twins who is charged in a case involving hand grenades and explosives, has cut a plea deal with the federal government. Tuesday’s filing in the U.S. District Court revealed that Gregerson, 29, has a plea hearing before U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow on...

International

Media blackouts muddle objectivity

March 6th, 20171 DEARBORN— In political science, the “CNN effect” refers to the effect of round-the-clock 24 hour coverage on wars and humanitarian crises. The term credits such coverage as being instrumental in mobilizing and manufacturing opinion and influencing foreign policy. Yet, security consultant and analyst Joshua Geis joins numerous...

World

Trump says he will ‘absolutely’ order safe zones for Syria

January 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON - Saying Europe had made a tremendous mistake by admitting millions of refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern trouble spots, Trump told ABC News in an interview: "I don't want that to happen here." "I'll absolutely do safe zones in Syria for the people," he added, without giving details. According to a document...

Lebanon

Lebanese security forces foil suicide attack in Beirut’s crowded street

January 21st, 20170 BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese security forces arrested a would-be suicide bomber inside a crowded cafe in one of the busiest neighbourhoods in the capital Beirut on Saturday night, security sources told AFP. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a man wearing an explosive bomb belt had been detained by authorities after...

Iraq

Most ISIS leaders in Mosul killed

January 21st, 20170 MOSUL — Most ISIS commanders in Mosul have been killed in battles with Iraqi government forces that raged over the past three months in the eastern side of the city, an Iraqi general said on Thursday. The fight to take the western side of Mosul, which remains under the jihadists' control, should not be more difficult than the...

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